Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGHWEEK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256934
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGHWEEK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256934
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Dec-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGHWEEK STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGHWEEK STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newton Abbot
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 85654 71425
Details
NEWTON ABBOT
SX8571SE HIGHWEEK STREET 1012-1/13/88 (North East side) 16/07/49 Church of St Mary (Formerly Listed as: HIGH WEEK STREET Church of St Mary and St Mary's Hall)
GV II
Former church, now converted into housing. Mid C15 tower built under the patronage of the Yardes of Bradley Manor, Totnes Road, (qv); flanking additions including St Mary's Church Hall (qv) built 1826; further alterations 1870 by JW Rowell; remodelled 1992. MATERIALS: roughcast over rubble, slate roof. PLAN: plan of former tower, nave and north aisle, with St Mary's Church Hall (qv) attached to the right. EXTERIOR: tower in 3 stages with crenellated parapet, corner buttresses to obelisk finials to diagonal buttresses; flat-headed 2-light louvred belfry openings except a pointed-arched 2-light window with panel tracery; plain second stage; 3-light C19 window with panel tracery over a C19 recessed red sandstone pointed arch to a set-back C20 door. To the left is a pent-roofed aisle with a crenellated parapet, a 3-light window similar to that of the tower over a similar arch and door. INTERIOR: altered. Various features including mid C15 east window of the south aisle were removed in 1904-5 to St Mary Abbotsbury, Waverley Road, (qv).
Listing NGR: SX8565471425
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464398
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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